Falmouth Citizen

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September 1, 2006

The U. S. Forest Service has published a propaganda piece touting the benefits of conserving “open space” in rural America. The brave new ideas for protecting rural America from rural Americans is the main reason behind the series of 24 “listening sessions” the federal government is conducting across the country. L. M. Schwartz, Chairman of the Virginia Land Rights Coalition, (VLRC) soundly denounced the government’s attempt to hoodwink the public. “The report is filled with green half-truths and bogus solutions for non-existent problems. It is not even a veiled attempt at collectivism, but could only have been written by Marxist propagandists and proponents of Bertram Gross’ Third Way-Friendly Fascism…” Schwartz writes. “Smart Growth, Sustainable Development, public-private partnerships, conservation easement, transfer of development rights, regulatory buffer zones…it’s all there, right out of the UN’s globalist planbook, part of The Wildlands Project agenda to eliminate most humans from ‘protected lands’ and crowd them into ‘sustainable cities.’” The Forest Service intends to focus on the “Four Threats” that will require “working across jurisdictional boundaries to conserve open space in rural America…[W]here forests are in private ownership, as the majority are,” the report claims, “residential growth alters the ability of these forests to provide ecosystem services and public benefits…” Mr. Schwartz says the report is further evidence that the greens, from The Nature Conservancy to the American Farmland Trust, “have infiltrated the upper (political) ranks of the USFS and are now influencing and even dictating the ‘new’ FS policy nationwide.”

Open Space Conservation for Rural America